One thing that bothered me somewhat in the Met Don Giovanni from last week
and which irritated the hell out of me last night was Ms. Fleming's
constant 'speech-onset' for the beginning and ending of almost every
phrase she sang. I kept saying to myself 'So sing already!' Did this
bother anyone else? Normally, while not a big fan of that 'white patch'
in her upper middle, I do find her singing very alluring, though I have
come to question her knowledge of vocal style as of late (her Manon
Gavotte was very odd in style, as was some of her Mozart last week - I
mean, save the sprechstimme for verismo and Schoenberg!)
Mark Montgomery
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Karen wrote:
> I'm curious to know what others thought of this. I saw bits of it,
> and I am just exploring my own reaction which was to keep switching away
> from it.
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